Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 6

The lower jaw, or mandible, is the strongest bone of the face and the only skull bone that moves; its hinge is just in front of the ear.

Who acts: lower jaw, only skull bone, hinge · What happens: be, move · To what, where: strongest bone, front

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lower jaw, only skull bone, hinge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jaw	det
2	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 jaw	amod
3	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mandible	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 mandible	cc
6	mandible	mandible	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jaw	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 jaw	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bone	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bone	det
10	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bone	amod
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bone	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bone	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bone	amod
18	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bone	compound
19	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 moves	nsubj
21	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bone	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 front	punct
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hinge	nmod:poss
24	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 front	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 front	cop
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 front	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 ear	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ear	det
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 front	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bone	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lower jaw or mandible	the strongest bone		of the face and the only skull bone	tree rules
2	move	present	the only skull bone				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	bone's hinge		front	of the ear	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:6.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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